Click the links below to access student assessment booklets containing actual questions from the assessments and scoring guides containing examples of student answers taken from past years’ assessments.
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Additional Tasks: These tasks have been used in a previous assessment. Teachers may use them as instructional tools or for classroom assessment with students in either applied or academic programs.
[PDF] | Posted 12.23.05
This guide has been developed to provide direction and information to principals and teachers administering the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics in winter or spring 2010. Administering the assessment according to the guidelines in this document will ensure province-wide consistency before, during and after the administration.
Guide for Administering the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics [PDF] | Posted 12.01.09
This guide provides information and directions to assist principals and teachers in making decisions about accommodations for students with special education needs and special provisions for English-language learners writing the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics.
Guide for Accommodations and Special Provisions, Winter and Spring 2010 [PDF] | Posted 12.01.09
This paper outlines the value of good data and how EQAO assessments help to ensure that everyone involved in educating our children has the most powerful information available to continue this improvement.
Provincial assessments that gather information from every student provide an essential foundation of data that educators, policy-makers and researchers rely on to plan for student progress. Full-census assessments also create strong, local accountability in the publicly funded school system.
The Power of Good Information [PDF] | Posted 27.11.09
Mathematical formulas are provided on the Formula Sheets for student reference during the assessment. Formulas are given for perimeter, area and volume for various geometric figures; the academic formula sheet also includes surface area.
This sample Individual Student Report shows how students receive their results for the province-wide Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, 2008–2009.
Sample Individual Student Report [PDF] | Posted 11.26.09
The summary of results provides an overview of results at the provincial level as well as a comparison of results over time and strategies to assist teachers, parents and other education stakeholders in helping students develop and demonstrate their knowledge and skills in mathematics.
Summary of Results and Strategies for Teachers 2008–2009 [PDF] | Posted 09.17.09
These reports outline the technical features and professional expertise that were used to ensure the accuracy, validity and psychometric integrity of the EQAO assessments. A full report and an executive summary are prepared each year.
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This framework provides a detailed description of the EQAO Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, which is conducted each year in Ontario. It also describes how the Grade 9 assessment aligns with the expectations in The Ontario Curriculum.
Framework [PDF] | Posted 04.03.09
This guide is intended to assist school and school board administrators in interpreting their students’ assessment results in order to improve student learning. Topics include:
Using Data to Promote Student Success: August 2008 [PDF] | Posted 10.01.08
This year, EQAO is privileged to have gathered a number of stories from local school communities that exemplify the many successful learning environments in publicly funded schools across the province.
The 2006–2007 Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics includes single-part open-response items.
Posted 01.16.07
Throughout the assessment, key words are used to identify the type of response required from students.
Posted 10.12.05
The French Immersion Glossary is to be used by French Immersion students who study mathematics in French.
French Immersion Glossary [PDF] | Posted 10.16.06
EQAO assessments are scored using rubrics. The Grade 9 rubrics for mathematics give the criteria for scoring and describe the type of student response that receives each of the codes.
Mathematics: Open Response (Grades 3, 6 and 9 assessments)
Posted 05.10.05
Technical Paper: Relationship Between Education Quality Indicators and Achievement, Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, 2001–2002.
[PDF] | Posted 06.13.03
Explanatory Paper: the development, scoring and reporting of the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics, 2000–2001.
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